Amy’s POV

I quickly shuffled over to the kitchen and grabbed one of the notepads they provided to write down orders and a pen. I turned to move to the table they were sitting at, but my feet wouldn’t move. ‘C’mon Amy, you heard your friends, this’ll be a cinch!’ I told myself. I felt a hand grab my arm and jolted in shock, Rouge was right beside me.
“Time to go to work Amy.” She said giving me a slight push to get me moving, and walked off to Sonic’s booth. ‘She probably wants to see Knuckles.’ I thought to myself smiling. I tapped my left foot twice on the ground to activate the hover skates I had put on with my uniform, and skated slowly towards the table following Rouge’s lead. I practiced smiling, like with any other customer, which was what Sonic had to be today, just another customer.

Sonic’s POV

“So you think there’s a chance Eggman will attack again?” Knuckles asked with his arms crossed on the table
“No doubt, we haven’t heard from him in quite a while, whatever he’s planning, it must be big.” Tails replied from behind the menu, trying to decide what he’ll have for lunch. I had already decided and had my arms crossed behind my head with my eyes closed.
“Or he could just have given up cause we’ve kicked his fat ass hundreds of times before.” I snickered
“I seriously doubt that.” Shadow replied from besides me, he’d decided to join us for lunch today, after a bit of convincing from yours truly. My thoughts of lunch were interrupted by Knuckles’ winey grunts.
“Oh no, what’re you doing here?” He complained, I opened one eye to see Rouge standing next to the booth
“Hi Knuxy, glad to see you too.” She winked at him, I swear I caught him blush ever so slightly, I chuckled at the nickname
“Hey Knuxy, why don’t you move over and let you girlfriend sit with us?” I teased
“Shut up hedgehog…” Knuckles grumbled and shifted over reluctantly to let Rouge in.
“So, I haven’t seen you guys around here before.” Rouge said trying to make light conversation
“yeah, well Tails said that this place was a nice restaurant.” I replied shutting my eyes again relaxing “he also mentioned they have the best chili dogs in town, how could I resist!” I snickered
“You know, if you didn’t do so much running, you’d be obese by now.” Shadow commented now reading the menu Tails had finished with
“But then I wouldn’t be called Sonic the hedgehog now would I?” I replied
“Ah touché.” He smirked, not taking his eye off what he was reading for a second.
“Hi guys, may I take your order?” I jolted at the sound of that familiar voice, ‘oh no… here we go again…’ I thought as I opened both eyes to see Amy standing there with a notepad and a smile directed at… Shadow?
“Oh hey Amy, I didn’t know you worked here!” Knuckles greeted “Hey, aren’t those Shadow’s shoes?” he asked staring down below the table, at her shoes obviously, though I couldn’t see them from where I was sitting, nor did I feel the need to, since I was focused on staring at her uniform. It was a baby blue, frilly dress and was made to show a bit of her cleavage, which I quickly averted my gaze from to avoid someone catching me. ‘Kinda cute…’ I thought to myself.
“I made those for her and the other waitresses, great to see you’re getting use out of them.” Tails smiled admiring his creations. “I borrowed the design from your shoes, hope you don’t mind Shadow”
“Not at all.” Shadow simply said, I half expected him to go into a fit of rage.
“So are you guys ready to order?” She asked again after giggling, still smiling at Shadow.
“Oh uh… I guess I’ll have a chili dog.” Shadow said, slightly uncomfortable at Amy’s gaze, which was SUPPOSED to be on ME!
“I’ll have the kid’s fish and chips meal.” Tails said, and amy nodded and wrote it down on the pad
“I’ll have the steak, medium rare.” Knuckles, said, man he doesn’t mess around…
“The usual chicken salad for me thanks.” Rouge said hanging off Knuckles’ arm, which he didn’t seem to notice, probably daydreaming of the steak he was about to have.
“uh huh…” Amy nodded writing it all down. It was now my turn to order, she HAD to pay attention to me now! I opened my mouth to speak “…And the usual Chili dog for Sonic. Okay, the food shouldn’t take that long, just sit back and I’ll bring it to you soon!” She said still smiling. At Shadow. I don’t believe this! She didn’t even look at me ONCE! “Oh Shadow, could you come with me please? I need to talk to you.” Shadow stared at her in confusion, then me, then got out of his seat and followed her as she skated off, my gaze following them as they went. My mouth was still open and eyes wide in shock; I didn’t know what to say.
Finally Knuckles broke the silence “… Okay, did anyone else see something wrong with this picture?

Normal POV

Amy stopped skating when she reached the kitchen and gave the orders to the chef who disappeared again to get a start on the lunch. She turned around to see Shadow standing there with a confused look on his face
“Amy, what’s going on?” he said with a slightly worried tone, which Amy picked up on.
“Don’t worry shadow, its not what you think, I’m trying to get Sonic to like me.” She explained
“By ignoring him completely? That’s an odd tactic if you ask me.” He commented crossing his arms “So why were you staring at me?”
“I’m trying to make Sonic jealous, by paying more attention to you then him.”
“Oh I see, you had me worried there for a second, I thought you were going to start stalking me!” he chuckled, quickly realizing his mistake when he saw the annoyed expression on Amy’s face “Not that there’s anything wrong with that!” He blurted out nervously, expecting her to whack him in the head with her hammer. Instead she moved closer to him, until they’re noses were almost touching “Uh… What’re you doing?” He asked nervously
“Sonic’s watching us, pretend that we’re flirting.” She said quietly and shifted her eyes to Sonic and back quickly, gesturing Shadow to look. He turned his head slightly and looked to where she was gesturing, and saw Sonic watching them, eyes wide and ears pointed up with alertness. “I know this is probably an uncomfortable situation for you…” She started bringing Shadow’s eyes back to her “…But it would be great if you could just play along.
“Sure, I’d love to be of assistance. I actually find all of this quite amusing.” He whispered back while stroking her cheek lightly with his hand, so Sonic could see it.
“You’re pretty good at this, have you done this before?” Amy giggled, blushing as she started to twist the puff fur on his chest around her finger
“First time lucky I guess.” He smirked, and shifted his eyes to Sonic and back swiftly “I think we better stop now, he looks like he’s going to leap across the tables and punch me in the mouth.”
“Okay, lunch is done anyway.” She said picking up one of the trays of food the chef laid on the kitchen bench
“Man that was quick!” Shadow said in amazement as he picked up another tray for Amy
“Have you not read our reviews?” Amy giggled and started skating back to her friend’s booth, Shadow following.
“Here’s your lunch!” Amy smiled happily and set their food down
“Gees that was quick!” Knuckles said impressed drooling over the steak, Rouge giggled at him with one hand over her mouth.
“Dig in guys, I’ll back later to get your plates.” Amy said and turned to skate away, but turned back on her heel sharply “Oh, and Shadow…” She started and leaned in to whisper in his ear “…Start laughing like I just mentioned an inside joke.”
“Ha ha ha, yeah…”  He fake laughed and she turned and skated away, but not before catching a glimpse of Sonic’s furious glare at the two of them. Shadow sighed and turned around to face Sonic, “Sweet girl.” He smirked, almost breaking down into laughter at the death glare the sonic gave him, but managed to control himself.
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Amy skated quickly into the employee lounge and burst into laughter, along with Eless, Breezie and nameless who had made it in before her
“Oh my god that was so much fun!” She laughed hysterically leaning on the door
“His face was like “get off of my girl you ass”!” Eless commented in-between giggling fits
“I know, I had to keep myself from laughing on the job!” Breezie giggled while cradling nameless in her arms
“Okay, okay but seriously girls, what now?” Amy asked wiping the tears from her face, when she noticed Breezie’s “I’ve got a brilliant idea” face.
“I’ve got a brilliant idea!” Breezie smirked almost evilly.
~
“Are you okay Sonic? You’ve barely touched your Chili dog.” Tails asked worriedly, noticing that Sonic had only taken one bite out of his lunch; he just sat there staring at it
“I guess I’m not that hungry.” Sonic mumbled. He looked up at Tails, who had nearly finished his lunch, in fact, everyone was almost finished. He looked back down at the unfinished chilidog that he was looking forward to just a short while ago, now he couldn’t even touch it. He was too busy thinking about everything that was happening, was he really losing his Amy? Sonic’s thoughts halted at this one sentence. ‘Did I just think that?”.
“You guys all done?” he heard Amy say and looked up suddenly to see if she was looking at him, but she was again looking at Shadow. ‘Damn him! What’s so damn appealing about him anyway?!’ he screamed in his head
“Yep, we’re done, how about you Sonic?” Rouge asked as she passed hers and Knuckles’ plates to Amy, who put them on a tray
“…yeah I guess…” Sonic sighed and handed his plate to Amy, while staring at her desperately for attention. Amy looked at his plate, and then at him, for the first time that whole day, which relieved Sonic’s yearning heart hugely.
“You didn’t eat your chili dog.” She said with a slightly worried tone in her voice, she didn’t know she’d had such a big impact on him to make him refuse to eat a chili dog, which she knew was his absolute favourite.
“I… uh…” Sonic was speechless, the whole day he was waiting for her to talk to him, and when she did, he couldn’t think of a single thing to say back. ‘You pathetic loser! SPEAK!” He screamed at himself, but nothing cam out of his mouth.
Rouge smirked as she watched him drown; their plan was working a charm. She then remembered what Eless had told her to do as she whizzed by on skates a short while ago, and put the next phase of the plan into action.
“Hey Amy, who was that guy you were with before?” She asked Amy, and watched as Sonic’s heart sink yet again.
“Oh, you mean Nameless?” Amy replied, playing along. Obviously she knew that they were just making up a mystery guy with Nameless’s name, but Sonic didn’t know that “Oh we’re just really good friends. But he’s very handsome.” She sighed, another dagger through Sonic’s heart “He gave me a bunch of roses the other day, he’s so sweet!” and another.
“Really, maybe he likes you; you should go out with him.” Rouge said, catching Sonic giving her a look that said “DON’T TELL HER THAT!”
“Maybe, if he plays his cards right.” Amy giggled, while counting the money Shadow handed to her, apparently he was paying. “Well hope you guys enjoyed yourselves, I gotta serve more customers, see ya!” She said and she skated off once again. Sonic sat there, with his jaw wide open. Just as soon as he’d gotten his relief, it vanished again. Tails and Knuckles stared at each other, a little uncomfortable with the situation.
“Uh, maybe we should get going now, I’m sure there are some chaos emeralds out there we need to find.” Tails said nervously, trying to break the ice.
“Yeah I better get going too, I got stuff I need to do.” Rouge said and flew out of her seat with her wings “See ya Knuxy.” Knuckles blushed again
“It’s Knuckles! KNUCKLES!” he yelled after her. Everyone got out of their seats and walked towards the exit of the café. Tails then noticed Sonic wasn’t with them, and turned around to see that he had stopped halfway, and was looking back to where Amy was serving another customer.
“Aren’t you coming Sonic?” he asked worried, Sonic turned to face him
“You guys go on without me, there’s… there’s just something I have to do.” He told his adopted little brother, spun around and walked over to the source of all his torment, who was helping Breezie with cleaning one of the tables.
“I think that went quite well don’t you?” Breezie giggled while scrubbing a tough stain out of the table, when she saw Sonic walking up to them “Uh, I gotta go, good luck!” She whispered and skated off, Amy stared after her in confusion, but then realized what was happening.
“Amy?” She heard her voice being called from behind, and quickly turned around to face him, but then remembered what she was supposed to be doing and turned back to do her work “Can I talk to you?”
“Yah.” She simply said in response scrubbing the impossible stain from hell.
“Is… there something wrong?” he asked walking up to be beside her, she kept her eyes on the task.
“No. Why?” She replied and skated off being satisfied with her job, Sonic following close behind
“Well, you… y-you haven’t…” He couldn’t find the right thing to say “Are you angry at me?” he asked weaving through the crowd she’d lead him into, he couldn’t help but feel like she was trying to get rid of him. He sped up
“No.” She turned sharply towards the kitchen, causing Sonic to nearly crash into a bunch of people; he recovered quickly and sped after her, she was now cleaning the bench outside the kitchen. Sonic stopped and stared at her, her back was to him, this was really starting to torture him.
“Amy, please look at me.” He pleaded, she didn’t. He couldn’t take this anymore; he grabbed her by the shoulders and turned her to face him. He stared into her eyes, they were wide, and she was shocked that he had been so assertive. “Amy.” He mumbled subconsciously, not intending to start or finish a sentence, just wanting to say her name, and hoping that she would say his. Suddenly his eyes widened and his muzzle became flushed as he realized what he had just done, and also that the entire kitchen staff were staring at them. He took his hands off her shoulders and put them at his sides “Oh my gosh, sorry Amy, I… Don’t know what came over me!” he blurted out in embarrassment, Amy stood there watching him.
“It’s okay Sonic.” She told him, but it didn’t do much good.
“I… I gotta go! B-b-Bye!” He stuttered and sped out the door, nearly knocking over a waitress as he went, Amy stared after him in awe.
“Woah.” Eless said as she and Breezie walked up to her “I didn’t think he’d respond that quickly!”
“Seemed kinda desperate didn’t he?” Breezie commented
“So… What happens now?” Amy asked turning to her apparent “other love interest” Nameless as he floated around
“Nothing, yet. Just sit and wait, he’ll come to you.” Eless said patting Amy on the shoulder.
“You think so?” Amy asked once again staring to where Sonic was previously
“Honestly Amy, I don’t think someone that desperate could stay away too long.” Breezie giggled.